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prodigal (s) (noun), prodigals (pl)
1. A spendthrift or a profligate (wasteful) spender: Alice was a prodigal who went through the income that her husband earned as if it were water.
2. Anyone who spends funds in an excessive or uncontrollable way: Jane wrote a book about prodigals who had received large amounts of money from their parents and ended up living in poverty because they wasted the inheritances that they had received.

Prodigals are wasteful people who cannot live within their incomes, and then find that they cannot live within their credit accounts either.

—Compiled from a quote by Evan Esar in his
Esar's Comic Dictionary; Doubleday & Company, Inc.;
Garden City, New York; 1983; page 477.
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